Railway-rail attachment.



W. HASKINS. RAILWAYl RAIL ATTACHMENT. APPLICATION FILED Nov. 1s, 1912.

Patented Mar. 4, 1913.

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WILLIAM HAsxINs, or HAHTFoniJ, CONNECTICUT, AssIGNon or ONE-EIGHTH To CHARLES e. wonTHINGToN, or HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT.

g RAILWAY-RAIL ATTACHMENT.

Specication of Letters Patent.

Application filed November 15, 1912. Serial No. 731,527.

To all whom t may concern.

Be it known that I, WILLIAM HAsKINs, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Hartford, in the county of Hartford and State of Connecticut, have invented anew and Improved Railway-Rail Attachment, ofv

which the following is a full, clear, and ex'- act description; v. The invention is an improved attachment for railway rails, and serves not only to prevent the rail froml shifting laterally or canting but also to support the cross ties.

To this end the invention consists of a post having its lower portion embedded lin concrete and projecting a substantial distance above the ground, an angle-plate on which one end of the adjacent cross tie seats, bolted or otherwise attached to the upper portion of the post and seating on the ground, and an elbow attached to the angle-plate and to the rail web.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specitication, in which similar characters of refroad-bed of a railway having my improveerence indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 1s.a cross-section through the ments applied thereto; Fig. 2 is a face view of a post forming a feature of the invention; Fig. 3 is a perspective View of an angle-plate which is attached to the ost; and Fig. 4 is a plan of the attachment sliowing the rail web broken away."

My attachment is designed to be applied to the conventional railway road-bed construction, sucli, for example, as shown in lFig. 1, wherein the rails 5, 5, are secured to the cross ties 6. Along the track, more especially the curves, is placed at intervals my improved attachment consisting of a post 7, an angle-plate 8 and an elbow 9. The post 7 is embedded in concrete 10 a substantial distance, generally hali its length or slightly greater, leaving a substantial port-ion projecting above the concrete, as clearly shown in Fig. 1. The upper portion of thel post, and also the upright arm of the angleplate, are provided with a series of bolt openings 1l arranged as shown in Figs. 2

and 3, for receiving bolts 12 or other equivalent devices detachably connecting the parts 7 fand 8 together. With the plate thus secured, the bottom arm of the plate seats directl neatli7 cross tie, The elbow 9 is provided with a flange at each end which respectively seat on theupper face of the hprizontal arm of the angle-plate and' the web of the adjacent rail 5, at which points vthey are bolted or otherwise suitably secured. The size of the elbow increases inpassing from lthe rail to the angle-plate, whereby that portion adjacent to the plate will be sutlciently strong to resist an lateral thrust to which the rail is subjecte by the rolling stock. With the rail thus secured, its lateral displacement or canting is etfectually prevented and the adjacent end of the cross tie receives a substantial support.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

1. A railway attachment comprising an upright post having the lower portion thereof embedded in concrete, an angleplate bolted to the upper portion of the post, and an elbow attached to the horizontal arm of the angle-plate for connecting the rail therewith.

2. The combination of a cross tie, a rail seated on the tie, a post, an angle-plate attached to the post and extended under each end of and supporting the cross tie, and an elbpw attached to the angle-plate and to the rai 3. The combination of a railway tie, a rail seated on the tie, a post having the lower portion thereof embedded in. concrete adjacent to the tie, an angle-plate bolted to the post, with the horizontal arm thereof extended underneath and supporting the tie, andan elbow flanged at each end and bolted to the angle-plate and to the web of the rail.

4. ln a railway rail attachment, a post, an angle-plate attached to the post, and an elbow carried by the plate for securing the rail thereto.

5. In a railway rail attachment, a post,

on the ground and yprojects under:- and supports the end of the adjacent.

an an lef-'plate .having the upright arm l name to this specicaton in. the presence of v thereo `attached to one end of the post, and two subscribing witnesses.

an elbow anged at opposite ends, With one WILLIAM HASKINS. flangwsecured to the plate and the other Witnesses: 5 Hange attached to the rail. MARGARET M. WELCH,

In testimony whereof I have signed my CHARLES G. WORTHINGTON. 

